Improvement in portable fence



PHIL'o LAMBKIN, or sT. ALBANs, VERMONT.

" Laim Patent No. 85,595, dazed .mmm-y 5, 1869.

l IMPROVELKENT IN PORTABLE FENCE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom '5t may concern Beit known that I, PHILO LAMBKIN, of St. Albans, in the county of Franklin, and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make Yand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying'drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of a portion of my improved Lence.

Figure 2 is a perspective View of one of the posts or supports of the fence.

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view, taken through the line x x, g. 1.

Figure 4 is a side view of one of-the panels detached and folded for transportation.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish animproved A portable fence, so constructed that it may be ldurable, substantial, and effective, easily and quickly set up and taken down, and which may be folded o1 shut upinto small compass, for transportation; and-.-

It consists '1u the. construction and combination of various parts of the fence, as. hereinaiter more fully described.

A are the posts or supports, with which the ends of the panels-B are connected.

The supports A are made A- shaped, that is to say,

' they arev formed of two inclined bars, connected to each other at their upper ends, and the lower parts of which are connected, and held in their proper relative position, by a horizontal cross-bar, as shown in iig. 2.

The panels B are formed by pivoting upright crossbars to horizontal bars, in such a way as to form a picket-fence, as shown in the left-hand panels in iig. 1, or so as to form a horizontal-bar fence, as shown in the right-hand panel of iig. 1, in every case, the vertical The upper one of the plates D is attached to the upper ends of the inclined bars ofthe supports A, and

the lower one of said plates is attached to the middle part of the horizontal cross-barof said support, as

shown in iig. 2.

By this construction of the fence, it will stand firm and secure, may 'be built over uneven ground, the upright cross-bars being, all the time, vertical, and each panel maybe opened, and used as a gate, without disturbing any of thefother panels.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The braces A and plates D, in combination with the panels B and hooks C, arranged as described, for the purpose speciled.A v

PHILO LAMBKIN. Viitnesses:

PARK Davis, H. C.' ADAMS. 

